With a number of major plans and projects expected to come down the pipeline soon, the Glendale Redevelopment Agency has adopted an extended work schedule with longer meetings and extended study sessions twice a month. City Councilman Sheldon Baker, who was appointed chairman of the agency board of directors last week, said the agency needs more time than its weekly half-hour meetings allow to discuss several important developments it will consider in the coming year.

Property owners eager for progress on a stalled downtown shopping center project have urged the Glendale Redevelopment Agency to begin looking for a new developer. The Tolkin Group has been negotiating with owners in the two-block area southeast of Brand Boulevard and Broadway for nearly two years, trying to assemble land for the proposed Glendale Marketplace, a center with retail stores, restaurants and a movie theater.

Plans for a new police station complex costing $48 million have moved ahead despite worries that the project may reduce funding for Glendale's much-touted capital improvement program. The City Council gave the green light Tuesday night for City Manager David Ramsay to hire architects to design the three-building, 168,000-square-foot complex, which will be three times the size of the existing station at Wilson Avenue and Isabel Street.

The future of Burbank Airport, caught between increasing demand for air travel and neighborhood concerns over the noise that expansion would bring, will remain at center stage for both Glendale and Burbank. But other issues will test political leadership in the two cities, from scandals in Burbank High School's football program to Glendale's plans for a new open-air marketplace and the arrival of DreamWorks SKG's animation studios.

The Glendale Redevelopment Agency will consider today whether to sign a deal with a developer to build the Glendale Marketplace, a proposed shopping center in the heart of the city's downtown. Officials with Regent / Tolkin, a development partnership, said this week that they have obtained options to buy 42% of the land within the project site, which is bordered by Broadway, Brand Boulevard, and Harvard and Louise streets.

The Planning Commission has voted 5 to 0 to recommend to the City Council a revised plan for a controversial hillside development in Sleepy Hollow Canyon. The council will review the proposed subdivision for the third time at 6:30 p.m. April 26. The commission vote on the 18-home project was this week. Plans for the project have been revised several times since council members first rejected a proposal by Doty Development Co.

Glendale Redevelopment Agency members has voted to allocate $1.1 million from the agency's 1994-95 budget reserves for several projects that have been redefined since the original budget was approved in June. When the agency, whose members also sit on the City Council, approved its 1994-95 fiscal year budget it was told that officials may ask for more money after several projects were better defined, said City Manager Dave Ramsay.

A plan to stop movie theaters from locating outside the downtown Glendale area for a 45-day moratorium period was amended to Brand Boulevard only. The City Council asked city staff members on Tuesday to narrow the proposed moratorium. The council voted 5 to 0 to introduce the moratorium, but asked that it be rewritten to allow only cinemas that would front on Brand Boulevard to be given permits. Council members will vote on the revised measure next week.

Twenty-five companies suspected of leaking chemical pollutants have agreed to spend about $4 million to design a treatment system to clean up tainted ground water in Glendale, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday. EPA officials hailed the agreement as an important first step in the Superfund cleanup of Glendale ground-water supplies.

After two denials by the City Council and a pending court case, planning commissioners have approved in principle a plan for a controversial hillside subdivision in Sleepy Hollow Canyon. The proposal, submitted by the Doty Development Co. of Glendale, would include building 18 homes on a 30-acre site on the hillside inside the canyon, which is located northeast of downtown Glendale.